Posted on 08/20/2018 6:16:56 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The German cabinet will soon decide on a proposal to make it easier for skilled workers from outside the European Union to move to Germany to take a job, a paper seen by Reuters shows, as Germany seeks to alleviate chronic labor shortages.
Such plans could be sensitive in a country where anti-immigration sentiment has helped drive support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and a row over asylum policy almost toppled Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government in July.
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The new proposal mainly addresses relaxing migration policy for professionals outside the EU, since EU citizens enjoy free labor movement in the bloc.
A lack of skilled labor and a shortage of young people willing to commit to on-the-job training for up to 3-1/2 years have become big concerns for managers in Europe’s largest economy.
Germany bet on more than a million refugees who arrived in 2015 to fill workforce gaps, but a lack of German-language skills and the inability of most refugees to prove any qualifications has slowed the process.
A record 1.2 million jobs remain unfilled in Germany, the Federal Labour Office said earlier this month.
The German Interior, Labour and Economy ministries agreed to recruit more foreign skilled labor to Germany, the paper seen by Reuters showed.
They have sent the proposal paper to the rest of the cabinet, which will take a decision on it soon and changes to it are still possible, two government sources said.
“We will adjust the federal government’s concept of skilled labor and focus on three areas: domestic, European and international skilled worker potentials,” the paper, on which Interior Minister Horst Seehofer took the lead, said.
Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) - Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), takes a hard line on immigration and asylum issues. He vowed in July to present a migration law for professional workers by autumn.
Seehofer faces a tough regional vote in Bavaria in October, when the AfD is expected to win seats in the state assembly. The anti-immigrant AfD’s popularity has surged since the migrant influx and it became the country’s third largest party in September’s election.
Germany already has a “blue card” system that makes it easier for companies to hire foreign academics and professionals.
The paper proposes that the government will no longer insist that companies give preference to German citizens in filling vacancies before looking for non-EU foreigners.
Graduates and workers with vocational training will have an opportunity to come to Germany to look for a job within a certain period of time if they meet qualification and language requirements.
They will not have access to social welfare benefits during that period but will be allowed to work in jobs for which they are overqualified so they can earn some money, the paper added.
Qualification recognition procedures in Germany will become faster and easier, the paper said, adding that the government is planning an advertising campaign in selected countries.
How do we let in thousands of workers only to discover we don't have enough 'skilled' workers?
What the heck is going on?
Amusing....because Trump is asking the same thing for OUR immigration policy.
You will not get skilled labor from muzzies.
They’re going to bring in Africans and Muslims to solve their skilled labor problem while turning German cities into the South Bronx. Brilliant!!
What Germany is looking for are idiots with skills. They hope Engineers, Doctors, Scientists, etc. will come to Germany and pay the taxes so that shiftless unemployed Africans and Muzzies can lay about on the dole with their multiple wives and kids, planning jihad in the comforts of subsidized housing.
Like this wasn't clear as day ahead of time to everyone?! They must think we're industrial strength stupid.
The Muslim and African migrants have little European language skills, a majority lack more than a middle school education, and a surprising number are not literate in ANY language.
They aren’t qualified to be workers in an advanced economy. That’s why they came and demanded welfare.
Germany is for all practical purposes open borders for unskilled workers, esp. from third world cesspools. But skilled workers? Not so much. This lame attempt at a fix is a joke. The chickens are coming home to roost.
> You will not get skilled labor from muzzies. <
Not so fast, Erastus. Maybe Germany is looking for folks with these skills:
- running over pedestrians
- making homemade bombs
- stabbing people
Amusing....because Trump is asking the same thing for OUR immigration policy.Not for the same reasons.
"Germany bet on more than a million refugees who arrived in 2015 to fill workforce gaps, but a lack of German-language skills and the inability of most refugees to prove any qualifications has slowed the process."How long have you been working at CNN?
Germans have decided not to replace themselves with young Germans.
Where’s Fritz Todt when you need him?
I wasn’t aware that they had to ease immigration laws to accomplish this. Perhaps those non existent immigration laws are only for Muslims. As long as you are a Muslim you can come no questions asked. Now they need people who have actual competencies in disciplines beyond how to kill non believers of Islam. Thus the need to ease immigration laws.
Maybe former ISIS fighters could take up skilled positions in German butcher shops.
These are two separate topics.
First, you have the Syria/Iraqi crowd which were the bulk (probably sixty percent) that came 2013-to-present. I’ve come across a lot of the Syrians and they’ve got some university background or job-craft skills. I suspect over half of them could easily fit into a job.
Second, you have ‘all others’ (in the range of 40-percent) which includes a heck of a lot of young men from North Africa, with marginal to zero skills for the job market. Based on the statistics from 2016, fewer than 10-percent were getting visas to stay, but they were appealing every single turn-down, and making it hard to deport them (if they didn’t have a passport, their countries were not that eager to cooperate).
Third, the folks who’ve got the visas have a long path to reach job-status. Some of them are frustrated with this path, and eventually will just give up. You can blame the Germans for the path, but it’s their system.
Presently, they will tell you this woeful story of Germany being short (40,000) on teachers. For that, you need a four-year degree. Most German kids in the funnel to attend university....aren’t that interested in teaching.
Same issue with nursing, massive shortage there. They’ve gone and set up career paths and language training for several countries (Philippines, Mexico, etc). A number of the refugees/immigrants could fit into the job role, but you’d spend at least two to three years in training to reach the hiring stage.
All of this leads back to a group of marginal leaders in Berlin who’ve run the immigration doorway like some 5th-grade group of kids handling a candy-store. There was no plan ‘A’ or plan ‘B’. And behind the problems demonstrated, a negative numbers birth-rate which will eventually drop the 82-million population down to around 70-million within the next fifteen years (several studies all lead to that conclusion).
The 'host' will die while the 'immigrants' breed.
There's a word for that.
The key provision is the 3.5 year commitment to non the job training i.e. cheap labor.
Germans haven't been interested in creating families in generations. They are enjoying great material wealth and ultra cool vacations even as they dwindle away.
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